oh ye weather gods

[Scouse]

Sticking your head out the window and guessing is more accurate than the met office.

If you are out, you are out, who cares whether it is raining, that is what tarps are for.

Trying to hedge bets. Stuff we'll be doing will be much nicer if we can get cloudy rather than rainy.

 

[old.user4556]

Trying to pick North Wales or Lake District this weekend. Weather look similar on teh beeb but Barmouth and Keswick look vastly different on Google :/

Who finds what more accurate?

The Met office is most reliable, BBC's weather is driven from the Met. Always do your own assessment of pressure charts.

Google weather and apple weather apps are cancerous AIDS.

 

[ECA]

I use darksky, it shows you live weather radar and wind direction, as well as a bunch of other stuff.

Sure if it STARTS raining, then you'll get showers but that's pretty much what the %precip you see on most sites is anyway.

Dark Sky Maps

 

[old.user4556]

Live radars and wind direction also great. Lightningmaps.org - also good for real-time avoidance of storms.

 

[fettoken]

Talking about weather, sum Swedish professor have concluded that sunscreen simply blocks the burn, but not the damaging waves that cause malign melanoma. If this is true, i would love to see the companies delivering on these goods to pay up!

 

[Scouse]

Not quite after real-time. Want to know highest percentage chance of rain for N.Wales and LD for Sat/Sun as of, say, tomorrow afternoon

 

[old.user4556]

Not quite after real-time. Want to know highest percentage chance of rain for N.Wales and LD for Sat/Sun as of, say, tomorrow afternoon

Met office do mountain reports - do you have the name of the closest peak? Met office app gives your forecast for that, I've always found it reliable for Munros so should be good for YOUR PATHETIC ENGLISH HILLS.

 

[Scouse]

I guess Cadair Idris and Helvellyn. And I agree with everything you say about the scenery outside of the Highlands, other than at Nant Gwynant and around Snowdon itself, which is absolutely gorgeous

 

[old.user4556]

All here bro:

Mountain weather

 

[old.user4556]

 

[Scouse]

All here bro:

Mountain weather

Gale force in the lakes at the weekend. Snowdonia it is

Weekend of this incoming!

 

[caLLous]

Followed by a month or two of this!

Spoiler

 

[Fweddy]

Followed by a month or two of this!

Spoiler

He's not @TdC

 

[caLLous]

I'd like to think that @TdC has learned how fragile he is in immune system and body and doesn't try things that have even the slightest chance of injuring him. Like moving at above walking pace.

 

[TdC]

 

[Raven]

I'm only going car camping this time, with some townies. I will however be cooking their dinner on the fire pit.

 

[dysfunction]

Talking about weather, sum Swedish professor have concluded that sunscreen simply blocks the burn, but not the damaging waves that cause malign melanoma. If this is true, i would love to see the companies delivering on these goods to pay up!

You need to make sure your sunscreen blocks both uva and uvb light. If it does then you won't burn and you won't get melanoma damage

 

[old.user4556]

You need to make sure your sunscreen blocks both uva and uvb light. If it does then you won't burn and you won't get melanoma damage

Sources for both points?

 

[dysfunction]

Sources for both points?

UVA & UVB - SkinCancer.org

 

[Scouse]

Meh. I'll take my chances. There's no way I can avoid it when I'm out on the bike - and if I use sunscreen I sweat it into my eyes and it stings to fuckery.

So, I'll take the small chance of skin cancer on the chin and make up for it by being a relatively pious bastard elsewhere - in the knowledge that diet and exercise is great protection against other more prevelant forms of cancer, so what I'm losing by being out in the sun I'm also gaining by being out in the sun

 

[Raven]

You know, the solution to that would be to just not put it around your eyes? It isn't going to sweat into your eyes from your arms.

Edit, not that I always bother with sun screen, unless its in the high 20s.

 

[caLLous]

Maybe he has a massive slapper.

 

[Scouse]

Yep. I could slap it on my body but I'd have to leave the entire upper part of my head (for rivers literally pour off it into my eyes when pushing hard) and my arms/hands - as they're regularly used to remove the salty sweat from my vision.

That would leave me a white bloke with a two-tone head and red arms. Fuck that!

 

[old.user4556]

I get the same problem hill walking in the summer - it runs off my face and stings my eyes badly. Going over to cream-for-poofs with hypolollerbollocks doesn't make a difference.

 

[dysfunction]

Meh. I'll take my chances. There's no way I can avoid it when I'm out on the bike - and if I use sunscreen I sweat it into my eyes and it stings to fuckery.

So, I'll take the small chance of skin cancer on the chin and make up for it by being a relatively pious bastard elsewhere - in the knowledge that diet and exercise is great protection against other more prevelant forms of cancer, so what I'm losing by being out in the sun I'm also gaining by being out in the sun

Or buy some that doesn't run into your eyes.

P20 Sunfilter 100ml SPF 50+

 

[Scouse]

Or buy some that doesn't run into your eyes.

P20 Sunfilter 100ml SPF 50+

That's my exact sunfilter of choice m8. I think you misunderstand quite how much one sweats when riding a bike up a rocky mountain with a pack on your back, your lungs bursting and your hearbeat at max for extended periods of time.

 

[Bodhi]

I only really bother with suncream if it's 30 degrees plus, otherwise it is for gayers.

 

[old.user4556]

You've clearly never skied up a glacier then (not that temperature has anything to do with it anyway).

 

[Bodhi]

You've clearly never skied up a glacier then (not that temperature has anything to do with it anyway).

Well no, becuase skiing is for losers. I've boarded down one before though, didn't need suncream, as the inherent coolness of being on a snowboard kept my skin from burning.

 

[old.user4556]

Are you Job or Toht in disguise?